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Direct linkWalser, Nancy, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2011
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Hybrid Schools for the iGeneration: New Schools Combine "Bricks" and "Clicks" (Brigid Schulte); (2) Dual Language Programs on the Rise: "Enrichment" Model Puts Content Learning…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Formative Evaluation
Download full textWheeler, Marc E.; Keller, Thomas E.; DuBois, David L. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Between 2007 and 2009, reports were released on the results of three separate large-scale random assignment studies of the effectiveness of school-based mentoring programs for youth. The studies evaluated programs implemented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) affiliates (Herrera et al., 2007), Communities In Schools of San Antonio,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Schools, Campuses, Intervention
Plucker, Jonathan A.; Spradlin, Terry E.; Magaro, Marshall M.; Chien, Rosanne W.; Zapf, Jason – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2007
This Education Policy Brief examines the research regarding the efforts occurring in the United States to consolidate school corporations or form cooperative agreements for shared services. The brief also examines those policy levers which are contributing to the elevated discussion concerning consolidation and shared services in Indiana. Based…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Shared Resources and Services, Policy Analysis, Meta Analysis
Weiss, Suzanne – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2006
Parents are the central source of emotional, financial and social support for their children. Many young people also have the benefit of relationships with adults other than parents--including teachers, coaches, grandparents, older siblings, neighbors and employers--who serve as informal mentors. These relationships provide youth with extra…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mentors, At Risk Students, Interpersonal Relationship
Page, Stephen, Ed.; Shaw, Danielle, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
Beginners in many disciplines learn that correlation never proves causation, but sometimes, even in public health, correlation, mistaken for causation, becomes the basis for policy and great expenditures of public and private money. "True experiments" with random assignment to experimental and control groups hold a special place in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Statistical Studies
